Product Details

• Actors: Steve Nunno
• Directors: Bill Richardson
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: SportVideos.com
• DVD Release Date: December 8, 2004
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0006ZP4FU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,542 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Learn basic gymnastics skills from one of the world's top coaches -- Coach Steve Nunno provides a detailed overview of essential gymnastic fundamentals. The Beginning Gymnastics for Girls DVD from Sport Videos covers skill progressions and lead-ups for floor exercise, balance beam, vault, and uneven parallel bars. The program will help gymnasts and coaches develop the solid foundation necessary to progress to more advanced levels.

Customer Reviews

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!!, September 16, 2005

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Linda Jones (Tacoma, Wa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning Gymnastics for Girls: Skills and Progressions (DVD)

This is a great video for a beginning gymnast. My daughter is able to practice the moves while watching the video. I know nothing about gymnastics and being a parent of a gymnast, it showed me from the beginning what my child is learning which enables me to help my child practice at home.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved It!!!!, July 5, 2006

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Diane Sanders (Villa Rica, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning Gymnastics for Girls: Skills and Progressions (DVD)

My daughter is 6 years old and just recently started Gymnastics and she loves this video. She was able through the video to learn all the moves that he taught through the video. It was a great buy and we will buy more.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! Clear instructions and advice for a beginning gymnast., February 27, 2009

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Carol C. "ccjello" (Kansas City, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning Gymnastics for Girls: Skills and Progressions (DVD)

This video is very, very good. It's well worth the price for someone wishing to learn basic gymastics skills, learn about the various apparatus used in women's gymnastics, and learn the names of basic skills, stunts, and techniques.

Steve Nunno, a two-time Olympics coach, U of Oklahoma coach, and coach to numerous elite athletes, narrates this instructive guide. He is so pleasant, encouraging, soft-spoken -- and he knows exactly how to talk to and instruct the most inexperienced beginners in the most basic of skills -- it is difficult to imagine that he also coaches the world's finest gymnasts. The only time he seemed anything other than laid back was when he was explaining just how much fun vaulting can be if you understand how to do it. His emphasis is on keeping it fun and helping kids overcome the fear factor.

This video is no-frills and no-nonsense. It shows several young women gymnasts demonstrating skills using what Nunno refers to as "progressions" -- building on skills one step at a time to learn how to perform increasingly difficult skills. Nunno provides clear instruction on proper body position, alignment, and technique.

The focus is on beginning skills. The video covers biomechanics, stretches, and basic floor skills -- forward and backward rolls, cartwheels and roundoffs, and back walkover on floor. On the balance beam, the most challenging stunt is the roundoff dismount. The sections on vault and uneven bars are excellent in showing how to get started on the apparatus, working up to more challenging skills.

There's plenty in here that you could do at home -- and the instructions are so clear and the moves so basic that most kids could follow along on their own. Great video for parents and kids alike.